This version was also released on the album Rock Concert (Netherlands 1979) and as a B-side of the Spanish version of the single ' Knock on Wood'. A live version from Bowie's 1974 tour was released on David Live it was notable for Bowie singing the words 'children that you shit on' as opposed to 'spit on'.A live version recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, on 3 July 1973 was released on Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture in 1983.This version was also released on the bonus disc of the Aladdin Sane - 30th Anniversary Edition in 2003. A previously unreleased live version from Boston Music Hall on 1 October 1972 was released on the Sound and Vision box set.This version also appeared on the Japanese release of RarestOneBowie. A version recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 20 October 1972 was released on Santa Monica '72.This was broadcast in early June 1972 and eventually released on Bowie at the Beat in 2000. Bowie played the song for the BBC's Johnny Walker Lunchtime Show on.Mick Ronson: guitar, string arrangement.David Bowie: vocals, guitar, piano, saxophone.According to Bowie, 'it turned into this monster that nobody would stop asking for at concerts: Dye-vid, Dye-vid – do Changes! I had no idea it would become such a popular thing.' The song is ranked at number 127 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song was a regular feature of Bowie's live performances as Ziggy Stardust in 1972–73, appearing again on the Diamond Dogs tour in 1974 and the Station to Station tour in 1976. Like the album, it generated good reviews but negligible chart action, peaking just outside the US Top 40 and failing in Britain. The composer having agreed to Peter Noone covering 'Oh! You Pretty Things', which later commentators have argued was the obvious single from Hunky Dory, 'Changes' was chosen for a 45 release in January 1972. Rolling Stone's contemporary review of Hunky Dory considered that 'Changes' could be 'construed as a young man's attempt to reckon how he'll react when it's his time to be on the maligned side of the generation schism'. The song has also been interpreted as touting 'Modern Kids as a New Race', a theme echoed on the following album track, ' Oh! You Pretty Things'. The lyrics focused on the compulsive nature of artistic reinvention ('Strange fascination, fascinating me / Changes are taking the pace I'm going through') and distancing oneself from the rock mainstream ('Look out, you rock 'n' rollers'). Problems playing this file? See media help.

MENU 0:00 21 second sample from David Bowie's 'Changes'. The musical arrangement featured the composer's saxophone, Rick Wakeman's keyboards and Mick Ronson's strings, while the stuttering chorus has been compared to The Who.

10 Appearances in popular culture īowie has said that the track 'started out as a parody of a nightclub song, a kind of throwaway'.

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